Temporary Position: Scientist Bioinformatics at Tibotec
Employer description
Tibotec R&D is dedicated to the discovery and development of innovative new drugs for HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases of high unmet medical need. Tibotec was established in 1994 by Rudi Pauwels as a drug discovery laboratory. In 1995, Virco was established as a spin-off to improve the management of HIV/AIDS with innovative, new molecular diagnostic tools for HIV resistance testing that would better inform the treatment decisions made by physicians. In April 2002 Tibotec and Virco were acquired by Johnson & Johnson. Under the leadership of Paul Stoffels, Tibotec evolved to a fully integrated pharmaceutical company focussing on the discovery and the development of new drugs for Infectious Diseases.
Job description
In this function you will be part of the bioinformatics team and be involved in:
- Analysis of the results of next generation sequencing experiments in the fields of HIV, Hepatitis C, and Oncology. These experiments are done in support of the discovery and development of new drugs, and in the development of biomarkers for these drugs. We have a specific project that involves the optimization of an alignment algorithm.
- Visualization of complex data with specialized tools.
- Executing database queries for data mining
Job requirements
- Master's degree in Bioinformatics or a related field with at least one year of relevant experience in academia or industry, or Ph.D. in Bioinformatics or a related field.
- Expertise in scientific programming and/or scripting, and algorithm development.
- Outstanding communication and team work skills.
Apply information
This position is open until the end of 2010.
For more information please contact:
- Herman van Vlijmen
Director Integrative Chem-BioInformatics
Tibotec-Virco BVBA
Turnhoutseweg 30
2340 Beerse
Belgium - Email: hvvlijme@removethis.its.jnj.com

